Improvement in spades



J. LAKE at A. w. ELLIOTT.

Improvement in Spades.

NO`126465 Patented Maj/17,1872.

UNITED STATES PATENT QEEIGE.

JEREMY LAKE AND ANDREW W. ELLIOTT, OF NORTH EASTON, MASS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPADES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,465, dated May 7,1872.

Specification describing a new and Improved Spade, invented by JEREMYLAKE and AN- DREW W. ELLIOTT, of North Easton, in the county of Bristoland State of Massachusetts.

The drawing represents a front view of our improved spade.

This invention relates to a new spade with forked or U-shaped blade,which will enter the ground with greater ease than the plain, fullblades now in use.

A, in the drawing, represents the blade of the spade. A notch is cutinto it at the. middle, and extending from the lower edge about halfwayup the length of the blade, more or less. The blade has thus the shapeof an inl verted letter U. Its lower cutting-edges a may be slightlyrounded, as shown, or straight.

